[NTLK] Learning Remote App?

[Chris Browder]

Very true about the 90s. I like to think of it as a time where Apple played
in every field to gather the failures necessary to make successful consumer
products later in their life. The PowerCD was replaced by the iPod, and I
suppose the MessagePad was replaced with the iPad (Jobs himself said that
styluses were stupid because we were born with ten of them). It's design is
very interesting. I am going to see if I can locate a Magnavox stero (it
wouldn't be a bad thing to have on hand) and just toy with that.

That said, if I can find a remote that works I might poke around the TVPad
source and see if I can figure out how to add new remotes and codes. There
was a whole DOC with new codecs that could be added to it, so I assume that
it's not overly complicated to do.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, James Fraser <
wheresthatistanbul-newtontalk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> --- On Sun, 11/25/12, Chris Browder <kcfoxie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >How about that. I may dig around for the codes now that I know more about
> >the unit. I thought the powercd was a cdf100......very hard to find. Ill
> >search around for a 080 remote for the time being.
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> I don't think you're far wrong about the CDF100.  I'm no great expert on
> all this stuff, but as near as I can make out, the CDF100:
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> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/5gav8
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> and the PowerCD/CDF080:
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> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/fr7wz
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> are indeed part of the same product family, as is the Kodak PCD 880:
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> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/1s4ut
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> If you look at the remote controls on the PCD 880 and the CDF100 and
> compare them to that of the PowerCD, like you have:
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> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/sndgu
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> ...they all look pretty similar, yes?  :)
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> Unfortunately, you're also not far wrong about this part, either:
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> >..very hard to find.
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> Boy, I'll say. : /  However, at least with the Philips/Kodak models you're
> not competing against Apple collectors for the players and remotes, which
> is why I mentioned it.
>
> >If anything I am more inclined to obtain an hp laserjet 2200 for irda
> >printing than I am anything else irda right now
>
> I can't say I blame you.  Apart from looks and styling, there's not a
> whole lot to recommend the PowerCD or any of the other Photo CD players.
>
> The Photo CD format doesn't seem to have caught on all that well.  I mean,
> for what you were getting for your money, the value just doesn't seem to be
> there. As far as I can tell, Photo CD players are more curiosity pieces
> than anything else today. [shrugs]
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> Still, it's kind of neat to look back at all the other kinds of hardware
> Apple was producing at the time the Newton first came onto the scene.  The
> early 90's seem to have been kind of a rough time for Apple in terms of
> their figuring out just where it was they were trying to get to (not that
> the -late- 1990's were necessarily an improvement or anything).
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> Best,
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> James Fraser
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